Friko's World

"The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine. ” so says Vilayat-Inayat-Khan Not so, I say. Maybe if yo...

While my mac was away from home for a bit of R&R I felt utterly bereft. Every time I passed the empty desk there was a tiny jolt. Fine, ...

Yesterday morning the writers’ group met. I didn’t go. Sent no apologies for absence, sent no explanation, just didn’t go. Not for the fi...

The indomitable L.C. Skupien of  Retirement Daze  recently announced that she had been inspired by another blogger to try and refrain from ...

On this misty, frosty Saturday morning the sun finally came out at about eleven and the twigs on the laburnum and amelanchier were still...

Not easy, this writing lark. In fact, it's downright hard. For years I've translated other people's words, written reports for ...

Thank you everybody for commenting on the previous post about my intention to write a memoir. I'd like to say right away, that I won...

Some weeks are very quiet, nothing at all out of the ordinary happens and going grocery shopping is about as exciting as it gets. Weeks t...

Tess Kincaid's Magpie Prompt No. 89 It was still dark outside, a thin shard of a paler shade of black was beginning to creep round th...

New season, new school year, new writing group. Who said I give up easily? After the fiasco with the  Creative Writing Class  last sprin...

Tess Kincaid's Magpie No. 79 "These old photographs could go", she says. "Who would ever want to look at them again? Th...

all of you being bloggers. You and I could hardly say that blogging is a waste of time, could we? Thank you, everybody, for your generous...

"it's a waste of time, an exercise in futility, indulged in when the blogger hasn't anything better to do". Or so my cre...

I've mentioned before that I've joined a Creative Writing From Life class. I'm by no means certain that this class is quite wha...

This infant year, how very young it is. So much to learn, so many steps to take Into the dark unknown. The light of Christmas gone,  In...

Some of you know that I have very recently started to attend a Creative Writing class. Last week's homework was to write a sonnet. A p...